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	marks 2004-12-28 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa. Now, that's an end of the Internet I thought was a wank-free zone. Of course, it must be nice to have fans where 10+ full releases over twenty years, a seemingly never-ending tour schedule, plus a zillion and a half miscellaneous releases just. Aren't. Enough. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-12-28 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	I know. TMBG has been tainted by wank. I mourn. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2004-12-28 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	I just happen to think that what they're doing with it now is kinda stoopy. I learned a new word from this wank: STOOPY! I will use it all day long! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-12-28 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	I've been trying to figure out what it means -- is it a combination of "stupid" and "poopy"? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atalantapendrag 2004-12-28 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	OMG all the icon love in the world!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-12-28 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you. I made it myself, while in a drunken stupor. Feel free to take it, if you want. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pfeffermuse 2004-12-28 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Could it be from that McCoys' song from the '60s, "Hang on Stoopy. Stoopy Hang on."? Pepper (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-12-28 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it's "The Stoop John Brown"? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	monkeybird 2004-12-29 09:14 am UTC (link)
	Wha-huh? A couple of my friends have a band called Stoopy that play jazz covers of cartoon music (older stuff...I'm not talking about a jazz cover of the Chipmunks theme, although that would be pretty cool). I didn't realize it was an adjective as well! Won't they be thrilled when they find out... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mistressrenet 2004-12-28 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	I know it's just because I have bad associations with the band that have nothing to do with them and their music but... TMBG wank. My life is complete. (Reply to this)

	sarajayechan 2004-12-28 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	...I had no idea TMBG had no CDs on the market. O_o reads wank Okay, I sorta agree with the "The way TMBG runs things is stupid!" side, cause it WOULD be nice to be able to buy their stuff. But the other side is right, they can do whatever they want with their music. Me, I just love "Experimental Film" and that's that. :P (Reply to this)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2004-12-28 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	You can still buy CDs off their website (tmbg.com), tho. Personally, I enjoyed the whole "having TMBG on tape is disrespectful" part of the wank. I wonder what those people would think of my TMBG vinyl collection... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-12-29 08:31 am UTC (link)
	Ah, holy crap. I've been disrespecting TMBG for most of their career, then. Oh, the shame! -auronsgirl on LJ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	risti_on_lj 2004-12-29 09:49 am UTC (link)
	Hee! Icon Love!! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-12-28 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	That's strange. I could've sworn I just bought a TMBG CD for the husband not two weeks ago. No? Just my imagination? is puzzled -josie (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rachelmap 2004-12-28 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Me too. I own two TMBG CDs. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seppuku 2004-12-28 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	They exist -- at least, a friend was wandering around with his CD player listening to a TMBG CD and asking people what they thought the lyrics of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" actually meant, so I'm presuming they exist. Maybe it's just for older-ish releases, though? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-12-28 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Is it that they're no longer going to release on CD? I mean, we have nine of their CDs, so it can't be that they never have done so before. But this last one I bought was a fairly recent release, too, so I have no idea what's going on anymore. Bah. -josie (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

llama_treats
2004-12-28 08:12 pm UTC (link)

They release their new stuff on CD eventually. I think the problem the people in the links are having is that (a) they are not released on CD fast enough to mollify them, (b) sometimes the mp3s differ slightly from the finished products on the CD, and (c) listening to single mp3s somehow ruins their appreciation of the whole later-released CD (yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, either).

My advice to them: Just suck it up and burn your own CDs, losers!

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	kinneas 2004-12-28 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	Hrmn, what I picked up from skimming was that everything on mp3 was eventually going to be released on CDs with the speed of average artists, but TMBG is also putting out material in-between to satisfy cravings for new music, and people are wanking because they feel obliged to buy the equipment to listen to the extra shit they'll get anyway. Bleh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seppuku 2004-12-28 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. I got a free MP3 out of this mess. cuddles newly-discovered TMBG free-download thing Thank you, fandom_wank, for enlarging my collection of music I didn't pay for! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gloria_mundi 2004-12-28 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, maybe I'm technically-challenged more then I want to admit, but where did you get your free MP3? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seppuku 2004-12-28 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Go to TMBG.com and click on the thing that says "Free MP3's! Huzzah!" Sign up, jot down the login and password, and you can get a free MP3. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gloria_mundi 2004-12-28 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ah yes. That. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	atalantapendrag 2004-12-28 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	Grrr... I signed up and I remembered the password but I spaced on the login "name", and the confirmation email didn't repeat them. So not my day. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seppuku 2004-12-28 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	I did that, too, so I signed up again with a different e-mail. Now Netscape password manager can do all the remembering for me... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atalantapendrag 2004-12-28 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I figured that's what I'd wind up doing... not like I have any shortage of email addresses. (Reply to this)(Parent)